Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individuals of official posture reiterated monotonously that they had never heard of Emerson H. "It's probably in the basement," said they. Near the basement the group snared Crane Brinton, who had composed the examinations. Perceiving the grave predicament, he advised the band to sneak past the proctors into Emerson D. Fortunately, they followed his advice and at 9.10 assumed the same seats they had occupied...
...country has a right to refuse to meet others. . . . My first grave doubts of German diplomacy arose when Germany left the League for reasons which I have never been able to appreciate except on the assumption that the German Government was indifferent to the pacification of Europe. . . . Germany is arming-an army greater than that of any other nation in Europe, an air force already declared to equal ours and a fleet that would be the equal of the French and superior to the Italian. . . . [Germany] has broken up the road to peace. . . . And beset it with terrors. It claims...
...Grave Misgivings...
...pervading these writings there is a grim implication--all the more arresting because it often seems unconscious--that the young man who is the product of "bourgeois" civilization, the student at Harvard, capable of writing, of enjoying the benefits of leisure and culture, has himself very grave misgivings as to whether he is not possibly a superfluous luxury in the contempor- ary world. From this point of view, the almost feverish concentration upon social problems exhibited in these pages seems to present the undergraduate, throwing aside amatory poetry and exquisite prose as the playthings of the nursery, hastening to catch...
...Johns Hopkins, the Baltimore skinflint who founded Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University, turned in his grave ten years ago when Johns Hopkins Hospital trustees asked the U. S. public for $4,550,000 for new buildings and $8,600,000 for additional endowment, then Johns Hopkins' bones must have had a conniption fit last week. For the trustees of Johns Hopkins Hospital were begging former patients to contribute $200,000 to prevent the financially strapped hospital from shutting a large number of its free wards and curtailing its free clinical services. The famed hospital, which takes medical...